Sandra Adell is a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
She has published books and articles on African American literature and theatre. Her most recent publication is an edited anthology, Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Plays (University of Illinois Press, December 2015). Her current project is Women Theatre Artists of Africa and the Diaspora. In 2010, she published a memoir titled Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen. Sandra is an actor and commercial print model and a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG/AFTRA).